Villa Medici actively pursues a policy of hosting young visitors and raising their awareness regarding the challenges awaiting them in artistic creative processes and professions.
The secondary school students, between the ages of 15 and 18, come from a wide variety of trades, including woodworking, construction, electrical engineering, thermal engineering, landscaping and home care.
Between September and May, the students work in class on a collective project inspired by Roman cultural heritage and applied to the trades in their chosen fields. In May, they come to Rome for a week-long, tailor-made residency with a program of workshops, meetings, lectures, visits and oral presentations. Villa Medici also hosts a large number of student interns throughout the year, to support its teams.
Interns are welcomed in a number of departments: artistic programming, human resources, communications, sponsorship, art history, publishing and general secretariat. Mindful of the issue of equal access, Villa Medici has created a specific program for fellows from the French university system.
This program provides coverage of round-trip travel expenses between France and Rome and priority in allocating housing at Villa Medici during the internship period. In the field of social and professional inclusion, since , Villa Medici has been collaborating with the Italian Ministry of Justice on a partnership program involving a group of female inmates at the Rebibbia prison.
